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Overview | |
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Reporting mark | NYLB |
Locale | Perth Amboy, NJ to Bay Head, NJ |
Dates of operation | 1875–1976 |
Successor | Conrail |
Technical | |
Track gauge | 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge |
The New York and Long Branch Railroad (reporting mark NYLB) was a railroad in central New Jersey, running from Bay Head Junction in Bay Head to Perth Amboy, where it connected to the Central Railroad of New Jersey's Perth Amboy and Elizabethport Railroad.[1] The railroad was jointly owned and operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Central Railroad of New Jersey and became property of Conrail in 1976.[1] It is now part of New Jersey Transit's North Jersey Coast Line.[1]